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PROGRAMME OF STUDY
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Teaching should ensure that scientific enquiry is taught through contexts taken from the sections on life processes and living things , materials and their properties and physical processes .
The general teaching requirement for health and safety applies in this subject. During key stage 1 pupils observe, explore and ask questions about living things, materials and phenomena. They begin to work together to collect evidence to help them answer questions and to link this to simple scientific ideas. They evaluate evidence and consider whether tests or comparisons are fair. They use reference materials to find out more about scientific ideas. They share their ideas and communicate them using scientific language, drawings, charts and tables.
Grouping materials
1) Pupils should be taught to:
a) use their senses to explore and recognise the similarities and differences between materials
b)
sort objects into groups on the basis of simple material properties [ for example, roughness, hardness, shininess, ability to float, transparency and whether they are magnetic or nonmagnetic]
c)
recognise and name common types of material [for example, metal, plastic, wood, paper, rock] and recognise that some of them are found naturally
d)
find out about the uses of a variety of materials [for example, glass, wood, wool] and how these are chosen for specific uses on the basis of their simple properties.
Changing materials
2) Pupils should be taught to:
a) find out how the shapes of objects made from some materials can be changed by some processes, including squashing, bending, twisting and stretching
b)
explore and describe the way some everyday materials [for example, water, chocolate, bread, clay] change when they are heated or cooled.
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